Photo courtesy Howard S. Wright construction Evergreen Hospital’s expansion will include a new emergency department building, a new entry, underground parking, and more surgical and patient space.

Project description: King County Hospital District No. 2 is constructing a new emergency department building and additional space at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center. The expansion will result in 570,000 square feet of rebuilt and new construction. The project includes a new public entry to the hospital, underground parking, and surgical and patient space and support. Future development may include a kitchen and other public-access facilities such as retail and dining space, a reflection room and admitting. Evergreen’s existing emergency department, built in 1985, operates at 180 percent capacity. This structure was built to house a maximum of 28,000 visitors per year, but treated 50,755 patients in 2003 while experiencing as much as 10 percent growth each year. The new 40,000-square-foot emergency department building will provide 30 acute care rooms and four trauma rooms. It also will have a quick care area to treat serious cases, which account for about 30 percent of the treated patients. The new building is designed to deliver health services during and following a catastrophic event such as epidemics, natural disasters and mass-scale trauma. The built-in support system has alternate power and water sources and a design that exceeds current seismic standards. The new surgery and inpatient facility will be constructed with up to six 700-square-foot operating rooms and four catheterization labs with associated pre- and post-operative patient areas, and central service and support areas. There will be 192 patient-care beds installed to replace ones in the original patient rooms, which were not designed for today’s health-care equipment. Building a new emergency department and hospital patient rooms at the same time will allow for up to $4 million in construction cost savings. Address: 12040 N.E. 128th St., Kirkland Cost: $68.03 million (award amount) Type of contract: Hard bid Start of construction: Spring 2005 Expected completion date: Fall 2006 (emergency dept.) Early 2007 (entire project) Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction, 501 Eastlake Ave. E., Suite 100, P.O. Box 3764, Seattle, WA 98109, (206) 447-7654 Construction manager: Turner Construction Co., 830 Fourth Ave. S., Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98134, (206) 505-6600 Architect: Mahlum Architects, 71 Columbia St., Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104, (206) 441-4151 Owner: King County Public Hospital District No. 2 Project participants: Acoustical Design — Air Placed Concrete — Alliance Steel — American Coatings — American Stair — Austin Specialities — Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping — Cadman — Canron — Ceco — Cochran — Construction Unlimited — Contract Hardware — Corona Steel — Cosco — Crawford Door - Oregon — DBM — Engineered Products — FD Thomas — General Terrazzo — Hermanson — Hos Bros. — Insulpro Projects — Iris Window Coverings — J&S Masonry — JJ Jefferson & Son — Kadee Industries — Kirkland Door Systems — Kodo/HSWCC — McKinstry — Mobile Crane — NW Metals — NW Partitions — NW Tower Crane Service — Oceanariums — Pavement Markings — Probel — Puget Sound Metal — Radixos — Robert Witherwax — RTB Co. — Rubenstein’s — Seattle Bronze — Seattle Service — SEI — Skyline Tile & Marble — Snyder Roofing — Specialized Landscaping — Stanley — Sun Scaffolding — Suncoast Post-Tension — The Foss Co. — ThyssenKrupp Elevator — United Professional — Vertecs — Washington Commercial — Washington Glass — Washington Precast — WestMark Commercial Casework — Won-Dor — Zesbaugh — Copyright ©2006 Seattle Daily Journal and DJC.COM. Comments? Questions? Contact us.